
Helen Twose: Hassle free rules encourage savings
I've just joined KiwiSaver and have to admit I'm a bit confused as to what happens to my money after it comes out of my pay.
I've just joined KiwiSaver and have to admit I'm a bit confused as to what happens to my money after it comes out of my pay.
Two groups of investors in the Trinity forestry scheme, found to be a tax avoidance arrangement in 2004, are making fresh attempts to get the 9-year-old decision set aside.
A Metropolis penthouse owner paying $28,000 a year in body corporate fees has put his place on the market for $3.5 million.
My husband and I both have money in Australian Superannuation Schemes from a few years ago.
No matter which you favour, there's no way of knowing where the prices of real estate or stocks will go
The latest figures show that KiwiSaver is a massive success, probably the most popular scheme ever introduced by a NZ government.
A subsidiary of Allied Farmers has been served with a liquidation notice from Inland Revenue for $4.2 million.
Residents in Auckland five-star tower Metropolis are paying $3.25 million in annual body corporate fees but a further $4 million is needed from them for a big repair job.
I have a question, that you may or may not be able to answer, as no one else I have spoken with so far has been able to help.
A subsidiary of Allied Farmers has been served with a liquidation notice from Inland Revenue for $4.2 million.
AUT University is to host the first New Zealand Capital Markets Symposium on Friday in what it hopes will become an annual event.
Why are sharemarkets performing so strongly and will the upward momentum continue? This is the major dilemma facing most investors, says Brian Gaynor.
Credit cards are designed to part us with our money. Canny customers, however, can sometimes use these little plastic cards to their financial advantage.
Lance Wiggs' Punakaiki Fund plans to seek as much as $50 million in an initial public offering to invest in New Zealand companies.
New Zealand's $82 billion managed funds industry, which includes KiwiSaver, has been given a C- report card by international research firm Morningstar.
Owners of apartments in Auckland's five-star Metropolis tower are pitted against one another in battles which have ranged from cat-keeping to who sits on the body corporate.
Your savings invested in a KiwiSaver scheme and any returns generated by those savings are not guaranteed.
A resident of New Zealand's tallest apartment tower has lost a bid to injunct body corporate members.
Against a backdrop of rising share prices and a booming Auckland housing market, investor confidence reached its highest level.
The problem for many KiwiSavers is often a lack of understanding of essentials versus luxuries. "It's my money and I want it." So say many KiwiSavers.
Q: What constitutes a "regular trader" in terms of the tax man? How many properties and shares would you have to "trade" in a year, say, to be considered a trader and become liable to pay tax on the capital gain?
Residential rents could rise and historic buildings might be abandoned, say property chiefs who have mixed feelings about real estate changes in the Budget.